The Military Campaigns of the Wars of the Roses (1995)

by Philip A. Haigh

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This volume offers an account of all the battles of the Wars of the Roses. Emphasizing the strategies and tactics employed, the author describes when and why the various factions arrived at a given battlefield to fight for their causes. Although much is known about the social milieux of the period and of the political machinations that led to the wars, Haigh 's account gives descriptions of when and why the various factions arrived at a given battlefield and how they fought once the battle had been joined.… (more)

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This is a well-written and accessible introduction to the Wars of the Roses. Each campaign is dealt with in a separate chapter with a couple of chapters looking at the politics and personalities involved. This form of military history is seen as being a little old fashioned but there is still a place for straightforward analysis of what happened when, and why it happened. A complex story well told (I couldn't put it down) without being swamped by political and economic detail. (

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1995

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Henry VII, King of England

Henry VI, King of England

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This work is dedicated to Lewis and Charlotte, my children, and my wife Sarah, without whose support, encouragement and input it would never have been completed. (It must be a unique experience to be a fifteenth-century war widow in the twentieth century.) Also to the memory of Richard Brooke and Alfred Burne, two historians to whom we should all be grateful.

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This volume offers an account of all the battles of the Wars of the Roses. Emphasizing the strategies and tactics employed, the author describes when and why the various factions arrived at a given battlefield to fight for their causes. Although much is known about the social milieux of the period and of the political machinations that led to the wars, Haigh 's account gives descriptions of when and why the various factions arrived at a given battlefield and how they fought once the battle had been joined.

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